Free Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban

for raiders. Im worrit over this shoar."
    The salting bloak says, "Dont you worry over this shoar. Its my groun and Im right here on it and wide a wake."
    Eusa says, "Yes I know only Im worrit any how. Heres you oansome on the shoar with no hevvy fentses and heres me jus inlan of you. Any body gets pas you is going to be headit my way aint they. Whynt you and me largen in to gether wewl be 2ce as strong then."
    The salting bloak says, "2ce as strong but � as oansome. Iwl keap this shoar my self. All bes and theres the out path."
    Eusas off then and the Littl Shyning Man comes down hes in 2 peaces. He says, "Onlyes way Iwl get put to gether is when peopl pul to gether."
    The salting bloak says, "Whynt you pul your self to gether no 1 wil do it for you in this worl."
    The Littl Shyning Man says, "I cant pul my self to gether." The salting bloak says, "Wel I can. So Iwl stan my groun oansome."
    The Littl Shyning Man goes up out of site then Mr Clevver comes up agen. Hes jus stanning there agenst the back clof behynt the salting bloak and looking on. The salting bloak says, "I aint worrit Iwl be snuck from the sea side its the Eusa side Im worrit about." Hes keaping a sharp look out tords where Eusa gone off.
    Wylst the salting bloak is looking that way here comes a hevvy bloak in a boat hes coming from the other side. Hes got a club in his hans and hes coming sly. He jumps out of his boat and knocks the salting bloak on the head. Down goes the salting bloak. Off goes the hevvy bloak where Eusa gone and back he comes with Eusas cow. In to the boat with the cow and the salt and a way he goes. Mr Clevver looking on the woal time he dont do nothing he dont lif a han hes jus stanning there.
    The salting bloak comes up agen hes holding his head and no 1 in site only Mr Clevver. Salting bloak says to Mr Clevver, "Why dint you help me?"
    Mr Clevver says, "I said Iwd stan behynt you and I done that." Hes larfing then he goes off.
    Eusa comes up agen hes holding his head as wel. Eusa and the salting bloak holding ther heads and looking at each other.
    Eusa says to the salting bloak, "Whats the matter with your head?"
    Salting bloak says, "It aint as hard as the club what basht me thats whats the matter with it. What about you?"
    Eusa says, "I ben basht the same plus my cow ben took off."
    Salting bloak says, "My salt ben took as wel."
    Eusa says, "I thot you ben on your groun and wide a wake. How come you ben snuck?"
    Salting bloak says, "I ben looking inlan and got raidit from the sea."
    Eusa says, "I ben looking to the sea but he come roun behynt and raidit me from inlan. You cant be looking every way at lce when youre oansome."
    Salting bloak says, "May be we bes largen in to gether itwl be the safes thing for boath of us."
    Eusa says, "Iwl yes with that."
    Then Eusa and the salting bloak get fents poals and theyre largening in to gether and thats the end of the show.
    Reason Ive wrote down this woal show is so I cud put in my dads reveal at the end of it. Like Ive said he tol me that show over when he ben lerning me. He ben prowd of his reveal for that 1 moren mos he done becaws for 1ce the crowd movit on his words.
    Goodparley & Orfing when they done that show Ive jus wrote down they fittit down and off they gone like all ways. Nex day come and Nex Nite in its tern and our woal crowd with Littl Salting on its mynd and craving for how Dad wud connect that cow shit show. Dad he dint keap them waiting all nite for his reveal he let them get back to ther drinking early. When he gone up front for his connexion he scratcht his head and coft a littl and lookit a roun and like � smylt then he jus said, "Wel you know there it is. A littl salting and no saver."
    He dint say no moren that. The crowd � of them larft out and � of them syd deap. Nex day our Big Man which it ben Jack 1stfynd then not Straiter Empy he callit the crowd to gether to talk summit. Nex thing we done we pult out of Crippel the Farn and come up to How Fents which